Heard on Olde Time Radio Pat Novak For Hire:

“For you, all of human endeavor is a vague blur in high heels.”

Heard on Olde Time radio Pat Novak For Hire:

“I better have a drink first. There’s an ugly taste in my mouth. I think it’s saliva.”

Heard on Olde Time radio Pat Novak For Hire:

“Along the Embarcadero, nothing’s perfect except the heels.”

Heard on Olde Time radio Pat Novak For Hire:

“Sooner or later you get burned, and it doesn’t make any difference whether you’re a man or a mouse. Because down in the waterfront, in San Francisco, they build the traps both ways… Down here, if you reach out to help a panhandler, the guy’ll take your arm and hand you back the dime… I rent boats and deal any place that’ll give a good trade-in on a second-hand soul.”

Heard on Olde Time radio Pat Novak For Hire:

“I rent boats and tell a few white lies, if the price is right. It’s a happy life if you don’t mind looking up at a headstone, because sooner or later, you draw trouble a size too big.”

Heard on Olde Time Radio Pat Novak For Hire:

“It’s a good life. If you work real hard and study a little on the side, you got a trade by the time you get to prison.”

Heard on Olde Time Radio Pat Novak For Hire:

“Down in the waterfront, in San Francisco, you always bite off more than you can chew. It’s tough on your windpipe, but you don’t go hungry.”

Heard on olde time radio’s Pat Novak For Hire:

“Around here a set of morals won’t cause any more stir than Mother’s Day in an orphanage. Maybe that’s not good, but that’s the way it is. And it wouldn’t do any good to build a church down here, because some guy would muscle in and start cutting the wine with wood alcohol. All you can do is try to make the books balance, and the easiest way to do that is to keep one hand on your billfold and the other hand on somebody else’s.”